Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Reporter notebook: SCADA security, Oracle vulnerability, SQL Slammer"
This article is part of the June 2012 issue of Five actions to prepare for today’s external security threats
Journalists accumulate piles of notebooks filled mostly with a lot of innocuous stuff. Most of it never makes it to print or online. Unless of course you have to write a column and don’t have one thing you want to write about and just want to do what’s affectionately known as a notebook dump in journalism circles. Enjoy. SCADA security: Pipelines under attack Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to get a dose of reality regarding SCADA security -- or SCADA insecurity as the case may be. At the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit 2012, Terry McCorkle, a researcher who has a day job with a major U.S. manufacturer, talked about a project he and fellow researcher Billy Rios took on examining the reachability of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) online. HMI translates SCADA data into a visual representation of an industrial system, essentially building a flowchart of industrial processes. McCorkle and Rios found 95 easily exploitable vulnerabilities on these Windows-based interfaces living online. Attackers exploiting these vulnerabilities could in theory flip ... Access >>>
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Reporter notebook: SCADA security, Oracle vulnerability, SQL Slammer
by Michael S. Mimoso, Editorial Director
Reflections on the ICS CERT alert, Oracle’s handling of a zero-day and more.
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